Page 2 University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 12, 1957 Glad To See You If you have attended KU before, welcome back. If you haven't, then just welcome. Those of you who are college old-timers have probably caught your breath by now after such things as room hunting, unpacking and rush week. If you are a freshman, don't feel bad if you are confused by such hectic goings-on. Freshman and upperclassman alike may wonder if college is worth all the bother after stumbling out of the Student Union bookstore and that automated mess called enrollment. College is a lot of bother—complicated, expensive bother. But the person who yawns and tells how he hated to leave his summer job and come back to school is feeding you a line. There are no truant officers here. Lucky us, we come to KU simply because we choose to do so. Somebody has scraped up the cash to send us to college and here we are. It looks like a good year ahead. Enrollment this semester will be near an all-time high. The University's physical plant is bigger and better than ever. Things look bright for the football team. Unless he sadly mismanages his time and or finances, this year's Jayhawker can look forward to his share of dates, bull sessions and coffee breaks. He may also obtain an excellent education, the best reason for turning or returning to a university at any time. Larry Boston Little Rock Rocks What is all the fuss about integration of Little Rock, Ark, schools? When school opened on the morning of Sept. 3 at Little Rock's Central High School, students filed into classrooms as they had done in past years. Over 1.500 students climbed the flight of wide steps leading to the main entrance of the sprawling. 3-story brick building. Only one thing was amiss on the otherwiseordinary opening day at Central High. Mixed in with the students' crinoline skirts and blue jeans were the khaki uniforms of Arkansas National Guardsmen. The troops stood guard at entrances and in a 4-block-wide ring about Central High School. Their mission was to keep out 16 Negro students. The Negroes planned to enter all-white Central High this fall, following a federal court's order that Little Rock schools be integrated immediately. Arkansas Governor Faubus claims that by keeping Negroes out of Central High, the state-controlled troops are preventing possible violence. But prior to the governor's mobilization of the troops, it appeared to a casual observer that integration was going to come off smoothly in Little Rock. Downtown Little Rock was quiet on the evening before school opened. Newspapers reported that several scheduled segregationist meetings had been cancelled. It was quiet Tuesday morning, too. An all-white "mothers' march" on Central High to protest integration failed to materialize. At 6 a.m., the only strangers near the high school grounds were the troops and a few curious men who stopped to watch proceedings on their way to work. The workers chatted and joked with the Guardsmen. A few Negroes circled the area in cars. Nobody seemed mad at anybody. Naturally, the federal government is forced to take action against the governor's interference with a federal court order. In the resulting hubbub, the 16 Negro students have become forgotten pawns in a federal-state test of strength. Southern states have protested the use of federal troops to enforce decisions on integration, but Arkansas, not the federal government, has called out the soldiers. Gov. Faubus is wrong. Where there was no violence before the troops came, there is violence now. The best way to prevent violence is to obey the law, not flout it. Federal court officials have ruled that Little Rock's schools should be integrated. It should be done. Live It Up Clip them out and save them so we can't tell you "we told you so" later. Getting along at college, like anything else, is sort of a game. So, to enlighten the uninitiated and refresh the memories of those returning to the "House of Numbers," the Kansan would like to present a few cold, hard facts of college life. Larry Boston If you are a faculty or staff member and get one of the familiar blue traffic tickets, you'll probably have to pay it this year. No longer will they just report you to your department head for "bad behavior." And those tickets won't cost anybody peanuts this year. It works like this: you start out paying $2 and can parlay it into a small fortune with little effort. If some cooler head hadn't decided to stop the multiplication table at $16, by your 21st ticket you would owe the cops something like $2,097,152. You may or may not have to go to the stadium six hours before game time to get a seat, depending on how much power the ASC really has. If you don't get a seat, don't tell us, tell the UVO. If you're a graduate student you will probably carry a briefcase and write letters to the Kansan. If you are a pledge you will probably carry someone else's brief case and deliver the Kansan. If you are in Pachamac, get ready to take off your hood and take over campus politics again. If the old college spirit prompts you to indulge in deviltry, you had better be careful. If they catch you doing mischief at K-State or carrying ladies' unmentionables, you've had it. If your name is Chuck Mather, remember that the tough schedule also has the alumni worried. If your name is Dick Harp set your sights high this year—about seven feet high. If you're like a lot of your threadbare contemporaries, you'll probably have occasion to visit the money lenders in Strong Hall. And if you're a journalism or engineering student, chances are good that they'll know you by your first name. If you're a freshman, you may not be with us next year. Your class has the highest mortality rate of any. Statistics on the "Survival of the fittest" carnival held last week: Sororities, Rushees, about 425; Pledges, 324. Frats, Rushees, about 615; Pledges, 541. If you live in a fraternity or sorority, you'll probably make higher grades on the average this year than those who don't. If you stay here four years, you'll probably get a degree. If you campaign hard, you can get elected to a campus office and do nothing. The coffee in the Hawk's Nest is terrible, but you'll probably spend many hours drinking it. If you're normal, by the time you finish your stay here you will be driving a new car and your father will be in the poor house. If you live in a university dormitory, you'll have as fine accommodations as any place in the country. .. Letters .. If you live under the stadium or in Oread Hall, we feel sorry for you. 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